Future Location for Khepra’s Raw Food Juice Bar on H Street
Khepra’s Raw Food Juice Bar (402 H Street, NE) has been at its current location since it opened in 2011. The juice bar will be moving a couple of doors down to 408 H Street, NE in the coming months (they tell us that they are waiting on a permit but are hoping to be open by March).
Insomnia Cookies Opening Next to H Street Custom Frames
Insomnia Cookies (1309 H Street, NE) has a sign up that it is now hiring as the cookie shop approaches opening. The New York based cookie company with another location in Adams Morgan will be opening next door to the recently opened H Street Custom Frames.
Exterior of V Street on H Street
V Street, a vegan restaurant based out of Philadelphia, is planning to open in February of next year according to a Craigslist job posting (they also applied for a liquor license earlier in the fall). The restaurant will be a part of the Apollo building at 600 H Street, along with Whole Foods, Wydown, The Daily Rider, and Solid State Books. V Street is owned Rich Landau and Kate Jacoby who also run Vedge, a nationally acclaimed sit down vegan restaurant in Philadelphia. In contrast, V Street is a fast causal, street food establishment. You can view the menu for the Philadelphia outpost–which looks great–here.
A business entitled Allure Lounge has filed a liquor license application for 711 H Street, NE (the former site of Liberty Tax Services). The application is for a C Tavern with 200 seats and a total capacity of 400 as well as an entertainment endorsement. The building has been under construction for several weeks since Liberty Tax Services vacated it. More details as we get them.
Future Bar Elena at 414 H Street
Bar Elena (414 H Street, NE) appears close to opening on H Street. The new restaurant and bar is replacing Boundary Road and will feature creative drinks, food by chef Adam Stein, and games (more details from Eater here). The restaurant recently painted its logo on the outside of the building and a help wanted ad on Craigslist notes that they will be holding open interviews this week to begin training next week “before opening.” The restaurant is also planning on adding a second floor in the future.
DC Harvest (517 H Street, NE) will be serving a special brunch tomorrow, Columbus Day. They will feature their usual brunch specials as well as their pumpkin brioche baked french toast with cranberry curd. More details on the flier above!
H Street Festival Outside RedRocks
Tomorrow is the biggest day of the year for the H Street Corridor: 2017 H Street Festival! Going from noon until 7pm (with many after parties), the Festival will take over H Street from 4th Street all the way to 14th Street. It gets bigger and bigger every year. Below are some of the culinary experiences the visitors can expect from restaurants and bars in the neighborhood. Did we miss any? Please reach out or tweet us!
Exterior of Taste of Jamaica on H Street Before Renovation
After several months of renovations, it appears that Peet’s Coffee will be replacing Taste of Jamaica at 528 H Street, NE. As reported by Eater last week, Peet’s will be opening this location in H Street and a second location in NoMa in the old Tynan Coffee spot.
DC Harvest (517 H Street, NE) will be serving 4th of July brunch from 11 am until 2:15 pm with drinks going until 3:45 pm. More information in the flier above!
Is All Souls Bar Opening on H Street?
A real estate brochure from Streetsense for an unrelated building lists All Souls Bar as “coming soon” in the Apollo Building (600 H Street, NE). The brochure is fairly new to the Streetsense site and appears to be mostly up to date with other projects in the neighborhood. All Souls is a neighborhood bar in Shaw that opened in late 2013 and has good reviews online. They allow you to bring in food or have food delivered to the bar. We’ve reached out to All Souls for comment and will update when/if we hear back. District Cuisine did a permit search and could not find any permits or evidence other than this brochure that All Souls is moving to H Street.
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